Thanks for all the pictures, opinions and responses to my question. I bought a cheap pair of barends made by profile design last night and put them on, kept the original grips but cut a hole in them to push them farther down the bars to allow for the barends to clamp on. I then wrapped the barends with some cloth handlebar tape I had laying around to make them less slippery. I will see how this setup works for me during the next week or so, but I kind of think a new handlebar (trekking bar) is in my future.

I am currently installing mustache bars on my Jamis Aurora and will get a chance to see if those may be a good choice for the FX, but I am afraid that may take a bit more money to make work. I think it would take a new stem, brake levers to fit the new diameter bar and some sort of barend shifting like durace barend shifters and I am not sure those type of handlebar would be any better than a trekking bar.